Kendrick Perkins Unhappy With LeBron’s Tweets
Added on Feb 08, 2012 by Scott in
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The social networking hotbed of controversy known as Twitter has once again spawned outrage from an embarrassed professional athlete. In case you missed it last week, Oklahoma City center Kendrick Perkins was posterized by Clippers forward Blake Griffin on what will likely be the dunk of the year. Perkins took the high road, understanding it’s part of the game. Until he took to Twitter and spotted LeBron James’ tweets.
James, the player everyone loves to hate, was very impressed by Griffin’s exploits.
“Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I’m No. 2 now. Move over #6,” James tweeted, apparently referring to his own dunk the day before over Chicago Bulls point guard John Lucas III being relegated behind Griffin’s poster-quality jam.
Well, Perkins didn’t appreciate Bron’s enthusiasm.
“You don’t see Kobe (Bryant) tweeting,” Perkins said, according to the report. “You don’t see Michael Jordan tweeting. If you’re an elite player, plays like that don’t excite you.
“At the end of the day, the guys who are playing for the right reasons who are trying to win championships are not worrying about one play. They also are not tweeting about themselves talking about going down to No. 2,” Perkins added, according to the report. “I just feel [James] is always looking for attention and he wants the world to like him.”
Or he could be expressing his admiration of a great individual play by a talented NBA player. This comes across as attacking LeBron for the sake of attacking him. Kobe and Jordan might not be tweeting OMG, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t jump out of their chairs when they saw Griffin’s dunk. Hell, anyone with a pulse would be amazed by such an amazing slam.
Perkins has a right to be annoyed, but whining about a random tweet sounds like something, well, Lebron would do.
Source: ESPN.com
